Quotes of: Longs Keyword

Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

The Handmaid's Tale

(Suguri) You had an extra long walk, didn't you...? Let's go home...

Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs, Volume 8

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

I Capture the Castle

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

The Inner Circle

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

I Capture the Castle

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

The Idiot

You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.

Inspiration Meditation: Igniting Insights & Ideas.

Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.

Infinite Jest

I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last." -George from If We Kiss

If We Kiss

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

The Iliad

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

A banker is a man who will lend you the short sleeve shirt off his back and demand a long sleeve one in return.

It Occurred to Me

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

The Ides of March

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

I, Robot

Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning for what they never really had.

It

My heart was divided for so long. Now I'm able to give you every part of me. You deserve nothing less.

I Am Yours

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

Jingo

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

Killosophy

You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

Killosophy

Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

Romeo and Juliet

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

The Return of the Native